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abductee
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n. An abducted person, in particular a person abducted by aliens. (Late 20 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=3)
Usage examples of abductee.
When you talk with self-described abductees, most seem very sincere, although caught in the grip of powerful emotions.
Their accounts, most of which were easily elicited, were almost indistinguishable from the accounts that self-described abductees present.
Those treating abductees might explain to their patients that hallucinations are normal, and that childhood sexual abuse is disconcertingly common.
What I do deny is that ALL abductees are imagining or falsifying these events to satisfy their own personal agendas.
Still, at least hundreds of people, perhaps thousands, claiming they have been abducted, have sought out sympathetic therapists or joined abductee support groups.
In contrast, there are therapists who encourage abductees to tell their stories to mass audiences, and no legal penalties are exacted for falsely claiming you've been abducted by a UFO.
If we understand this, then of course we have compassion for the abductees and those who come upon crop circles and believe they're supernatural, or at least of extraterrestrial manufacture.
This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.
As in satanic ritual abuse claims (and echoing 'Devil's marks' in the witch trials), the most common physical evidence pointed to are scars and 'scoop marks' on the bodies of abductees - who say they have no knowledge of where their scars came from.
None of the abductee accounts really come as a surprise to someone who has dealt with childhood sexual abuse issues.